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Poems on several occasions

By William Broome ... The second edition, With large Alterations and Additions

Broome, William (1689-1745)

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The Third Chapter of HABBAKKUK PARAPHRASED.

Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job.

Daphnis and Lycidas. A PASTORAL.

THE FIRST ODE OF HORACE TRANSLATED.

An Epistle to my Friend Mr. ELIJAH FENTON,

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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A Lady and her Looking-Glass, while she had the Green-Sickness.

The MORAL.

A POEM On the Seat of War in FLANDERS,

To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis,

BELINDA at the Bath.

To the Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Townshend, Now Lady CORNWALLIS, On her Picture, at Rainham .

Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer.

Poverty and Poetry.

To a LADY, Playing with a SNAKE.

TO A Lady of Thirty.

On the Birth-Day of a Gentleman when three Years old.

The Forty-third Chapter of Ecclesiasticus.

THE Conclusion of an Epilogue TO Mr. SOUTHERN's Last Play, Call'd, Money the Mistress.

THE PARTING, A SONG,

On a Flower which Belinda gave me from her Bosom.

THE STORY of Talus,

From the Eleventh Book of the Iliads of Homer.

To Mrs. Eliz. M---t,

PROLOGUE To Mr. Fenton's excellent Tragedy MARIAMNE.

To Mr. A. POPE, who corrected my Verses.

Monsieur Maynard Imitated.

ON A Mischievous Woman.

THE Widow and Virgin Sisters,

ON THE Death of my Dear Friend, Mr. ELIJAH FENTON .

A Poem on DEATH.

COURAGE in LOVE.

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TRANSLATIONS From the Greek Poets

THE BATTLE OF THE GODS and TITANS:

THE LOVE OF JASON and MEDEA.

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The MORAL.

Ye Beaux, who tempt the fair and young,
With Snuff, and Nonsense, Dance and Song;
Ye Men of Compliment and Lace!
Behold this Image in the Glass:

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The wond'rous Force of Flattery prove,
To cheat fond Virgins into Love:
Tho' Pale the Cheek, yet swear it glows
With the Vermilion of the Rose:
Praise them—for Praise is always true,
Tho' with both Eyes the Cheat they view;
From hateful Truths the Virgin flies;
But the false Sex, is caught with Lyes.